This depends highly on the subject. Disagreements I learn something practical from one way or another are great.

Most discussions in the sphere of politics and ideology are pointless as it’s almost always entirely personal opinion.

Especially without some kind of baseline in truth and reason people just say things. I have no time for that.

Still though.

In europe we average out somwhere between 3 to 4000kwh per year for a household, where in the US it’s 10k upwards, which looks like a dramatic difference.

But we haven’t really looped in the fact that in Europe we mainly rely on natural gas solutions for climate control/heating, hot water and cooking.

Ofcouse they also use gas in the US, and invariably the fact that we don’t really cool our houses in the summer still works out to a lower usage overall i’m sure, but as we also shift to heat pumps I’m sure this’ll change.

Most people don’t cool their house because they can’t, not because of some principle against it. When people start replacing their gas heaters with heatpumps they can, and i’m sure they will.

We also can’t ignore we don’t really have those Arizona climates here. Americans that complain about any lack of AC also forget that.

I beg to differ.

I’m absorbed mostly in work but also a little bit of 3, however the “something” is merely trying to stave off a heart attack and premature physical degradation in general, and not so much some grand lofty fitness goal.

And also 4. The amount of negativity that entered my brain through social media reached critical mass during the early stages of Covid and I axed pretty much all of it and never returned.